Elder Stephen Crisp returned home from a two year mission in the Ecuador Guayaquil North Mission on November 17th, 2015.

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

December 24th, 2013

Thats what they call christmas eve here those wierdos. Ya So anywaythis was a pretty good week! Its kind of the same stuff everyday sothere really nothing exciting to tell you. Last wednesday, Me andelder evans my comp had a good experience, our DL elder gibson came inright before bed and asked for a blessing, I think he was superstressed out. Elder Evans seemed super excited to say it so he did itand gave a great blessing it was awesome. After wards he told us itwas his first one, and that that morning he had been praying foroppurtunity to give a blessing. He said he knew he would the wholeday, even though it was 15 hours after. So it was a huge blessing tothe both of them, it was a huge testimony to me. In our practice lessons thisweek, the teachers made Elder Evans start to do most of the lessonbecause up to that point I pretty much said most of the lesson. Hesurprised himself i think and me cause he was able to say a lot morespanish during the lessons. Hell still use like a manual or somethingbut we are actually starting to use each other as companions, itshelped see how lessons really go. It was actually pretty gnarly weabout made the fake investigator tear up cause he asked a question iforget what it was and I had a perfect scripture for it, 2 Nephi31:29, that says that no name other than Christ bringeth salvationalong those lines. It was cool i guess.

We also had our first issue to deal with aszone leaders, it was kinda wierd. We had a demonstration type deal asa district and an elder, who has some form of autism Im sure, saidsomething that made us laugh, and he took it the wrong way and gotreally angry with us. After the lesson, he stood up and startedyelling really loud at mainly the sisters, he just kind of targetedthem but he was mad at everyone. They were all scared so we quicklytook him aside and calmed him down, and then we had a litle chat withthe district about it while he was gone and we prayed together thathe would feel that we loved him, and ask that he be blessed withpatience and whatnot. We talked one on one with him after to tell himhe cant take his frustration out like that and asked if he knew thatwe loved him, and he kinda paused and said yes he did. It was such agreat blessing and since then he has been super happy so that was aneat expierence.

Sunday was pretty nice, we had a good talk from i think the CCMdirector hes a young gringo dude. He talked about not looking back toour past lives and focusing and committing 100 percent asmissionaries. He told us a story from his youth where an old man toldhim stay on target youre a disease. It had something to do with histalk but i thought it was a really dumb saying so i remembered it.youre a disease. remember that always. Oh man in sacrament meetingElder evans gave a talk, and he ran out of words from his notes so hetold us about a mosquito he saw on the window just before, who keptcrawling close to the opening but would fall back down, and he relatedthat to us as we try to become clean from our sins well keep falling.As he came back to sit down I was like that was pretty cool analogy.and hes all like ya i didnt say it in the talk but i killed thatstupid mosquito. hahaha i was dying. I thought you might want to hearthat.

Oh last night there was this hush hush tie black market in someones casa. It wasinsane there was like 50 elders and everyone bartering their ties andyelling and whatnot. But ya anyway we got shut down the CCM securitytold us we couldnt have parties. It was hilarious though, people taketheir ties too seriously it was really funny to watch and try to sellmy crap ties haha.

K so I can email. Im not sure when right now, itll be for 30 minutesanytime between 1230 and 230 here (two hours ahead). so we can likechat or whatever, so ya atleast we can talk kind of. Anywho have agood christmas eve and Im excited to open my presents!Love you guys

Alma 29:9

"I know that which the Lord hath commanded me, and I glory in it. I do not glory of myself, but I glory in that which the Lord hath commanded me; yea, and this is my glory, that perhaps I may be an instrument in the hands of God to bring some soul to repentance; and this is my joy."